REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR GIRL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2354, 21 November 1908, Page 1 (Supplement)

REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR GIRL.

(By Helen Rowland.)

Cast thy bread upon the waters matrimony—and watch all the honey get washed off. Nowadays love is merely an illusion, marriage a sad confusion, ami diaofee —a foregone conclusion. In love, as in other things, a woman “wants what she wants when sue wants it,” but a man never wants — even a woman —until some other man wants it. ... A man's ideal woman is like a cigarette, cold until he lights the flame, soothing and comforting until he tires of lier. and —easily dropped. Strange, that the later and oftener a man “works at the office ’ nights, the less money lie teems to have next mo lining. ■Courtship is the door to matrimony ; and like the entrance to the fashionable apartment house, it is often the most attractive thing about it. Perhaps George Washington 'did say, “I can not tell a lie"—but that was before he was married. Now is the time of tlie year when a man’s emotions begin to take a rest and his conscience starts to work. Men will continue to marry inferior women just as long ns they build barbed-wire, fences round their hearts whieh.no girl can climb over and only an insignificant little tiling with no scruples will stoop to crawl under. A woman could understand a man so, much more easily if he would simply lie to her all of tlie time instead of only three-quarters of the time. A really clever woman appreciates the compliment a man intends when he calls her “a little fool,” because, after all, that's wliat he secretly hopes she is. A man always feels as though he had been cheated out of some legitimate excitement when a woman’s first kiss comes easy. The way to a man’s heart- may be reached bv simple cooking, but it takes diabolical cunning or real brute force to roach bis pocketbook at this time of the year.

In love, as in gambling, those who come to play remain to pay. Real luck in love consists'in being able to get out of it gracefully. The less confidence a man lias in his ruling powers the more he insists on an outward show of deference; the Turk isn’t afraid to let his women wear the trousers and smoke cigarettes.

Nowadays no gentleman will' stoop to tempt- a woman—especiallv if he can induce her to tempt him and thereby shift the responsibility. The hardest task >a mother has'is to teach her child to be patient with his father.

Now is the time of the year when the lucky bachelor congratulates himself that nobody is coming home to discover that he spilt ink on tho parlor carpet, broke the best coffee pot and left tho windows open for the rain to ruin the curtains.